{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/15",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Senior President of Tribunals: power to delegate",
  "text": "(1) The Senior President of Tribunals may delegate any function he has in his capacity as Senior President of Tribunals—\n(a) to any judge, or other member, of the Upper Tribunal or First-tier Tribunal;\n(b) to staff appointed under section 40(1).\n(1A) A function under paragraph 1(1) or 2(1) of Schedule 2 may be delegated under subsection (1) only to a Chamber President of a chamber of the Upper Tribunal.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to functions of the Senior President of Tribunals under any of the following—\nsection 7(7);\nsection 7(9);\nsection 29B;\nsection 29D;\nparagraph 2(1) of Schedule 3;\nparagraph 7(1) of Schedule 3;\nparagraph 2 of Schedule 4;\nparagraph 5(1) and (3) of Schedule 4;\nparagraph 5(5) to (8) of Schedule 4;\nparagraph 5A(2)(a) of Schedule 4;\nparagraph 5A(3)(a) of Schedule 4.\nparagraph 3 of Schedule 5;\nparagraph 2 of Schedule A1 to the Employment Tribunals Act 1996.\n(3) A delegation under subsection (1) is not revoked by the delegator's becoming incapacitated.\n(4) Any delegation under subsection (1) that is in force immediately before a person ceases to be Senior President of Tribunals continues in force until varied or revoked by a subsequent holder of the office of Senior President of Tribunals.\n(5) The delegation under this section of a function shall not prevent the exercise of the function by the Senior President of Tribunals.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 8(1A) inserted (1.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 44(1); S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(e) (with savings in S.I. 2013/2192, regs. 48, 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2) substituted (1.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 44(2); S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(e) (with savings in S.I. 2013/2192, regs. 48, 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2) inserted (6.4.2020) by Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33), s. 4(3), Sch. para. 40; S.I. 2020/24, reg. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2) inserted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 28; S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8(1) excluded by 2005 c. 4, s. 94B(6) (as inserted (1.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 48(4); S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(e) (with savings in S.I. 2013/2192, regs. 48, 49))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 8(3)-(5) applied (25.4.2024) by 1996 c. 17, Sch. A1 para. 2(7) (as inserted by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 1; S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(i))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/15/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:45.892078+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}